Brasília – Foreign direct investment in Brazil reached US$ 3.409 billion in April this year, according to figures disclosed today (26) by the Central Bank. In April 2008, this value was greater, US$ 3.872 billion. From January to April this year, the foreign direct investment reached US$ 8.751 billion, against US$ 12.671 registered in the
The secretary general at the Arab Brazilian Chamber, Michel Alaby, should speak about business opportunities in the sector to businessmen at the fruit sector fair in Rio Grande do Norte on Wednesday.
Markets in the region absorbed 26% of Brazilian exports from January to April. Five Arab nations are in the list of 10 largest buyers. Sales totalled US$ 1.69 billion.
The Cbers Brazilian-Chinese satellite signal will be received in a station in Egypt, and in the Canaries and South Africa. An agreement on the matter was signed during president Lula’s trip to China.
The Arab Brazilian Chamber stand at the fair should cover an area of 150 square metres for exhibition of products and catalogues
The accumulated result up until last week is US$ 8.5 billion, as against US$ 6.7 billion during the same period of 2008.
The foreign market buys many products made by the company, which produces 140,000 square metres of granite and exports 90% to over 40 countries, including the Emirates, Egypt and Libya.
Companies in the building, dentistry equipment, pipe and connection, wood, dairy and auto parts sectors are going to exhibit at the Arab Brazilian Chamber and the Brazilian embassy stand.
A delegation from Egypt should be in Brazil next week with the objective of identifying business and investment opportunities. Meetings should take place with companies and sector organisations.
Caramel, by actress and director Nadine Labaki, hits movie theatres in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in June. The film tells the stories and dilemmas of five women in a beauty parlour in Beirut.
Next Thursday (28th) the third edition of the Images of the East exhibition begins in São Paulo. Foreign filmmakers, among them Rawan Damen, should come to Brazil for the debates.
According to the vice minister of Culture of the Arab country, Abdulaziz Alsebail, Saudis know little of Brazil besides football. The aim is to foster closer cultural ties.
Artist Susana Barros will exhibit 51 items, including ceramics and vases in the city of Belo Horizonte. The exhibition, wholly inspired by Egyptian culture and Islamic drawings, opens on the 26th.
Representatives of the country’s Olympic Museum will attend the International Forum on Development of Olympic Sports, to start tomorrow and end on Wednesday in the capital of Rio Grande do Norte.
